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Leslie Kochan

Leslie Kochan currently volunteers with the Tributary Alliance Rumble Team and XRPDX. She has a long history of activism on behalf of workers and for environmental justice. This has included organizing within her public sector union; Portland Jobs with Justice leadership; advocacy for strong living wage and higher minimum wage standards at the city, county and state levels; organizing to help pass the Portland Clean Energy Fund; and participation in the Oregon OSHA worker stakeholder group that advocated for and won the strongest heat and smoke rules in the U.S.

Outgrow the System Film & Panel Showcase New Economic Thinking and Doing

December 11, 2024December 11, 2024 by Leslie Kochan

On November 15, 2024, Extinction Rebellion PDX, along with 20 co-sponsors, screened the Swedish film, Outgrow the System at Portland Community College’s Moriarty Auditorium.  A beyond capacity crowd of at least 215 attendees turned out.  … Read more

Tags Degrowth, Outgrow the System, solidarity economy

Exploring Degrowth: Let’s Start the Discussion

August 13, 2024August 7, 2024 by Leslie Kochan

XRPDX is exploring how a well-being or degrowth economy is vital to a more rapid transition away from the material and fossil fuel extraction, production and consumption that is destroying our planet as well as … Read more

Tags Degrowth

XRPDX is a non-profit organization with a mission of direct action, public education and truth-telling about the climate emergency.
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